The diverse coalition of workers who came together to build the transcontinental railroad mesmerized bronze sculptor Douwe Blumberg. As one dispatch for the Daily Alta California memorialized the ...

IT’S DEFINITELY NOT SOMETHING YOU SEE EVERY DAY. A 43 FOOT TALL GOLDEN RAILROAD SPIKE ROLLING INTO IOWA. THE PUBLIC ART PIECE IS VISITING THE FIRST GOLDEN SPIKE MONUMENT AT THE UNION PACIFIC MUSEUM IN ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A massive golden spike honoring the thousands of workers who built the transcontinental railroad has arrived at its new home in Utah. Following a weeks-long journey that began in ...

You might not think this flat stretch of Utah changed the nation's history forever. After visiting Golden Spike historic park ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — President Warren G. Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska Railroad more than a century ago, a ceremonial act that marked the launch of a system to ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — People from Kentucky and Utah were at the Ashland Estate Thursday to celebrate the first stop of the 43-foot Golden Spike monument. It was created by Kentucky artist Douwe ...

PROMONTORY, Utah — Friday is the 155th anniversary of the day the world changed with the joining of East and West right here in Utah. The transcontinental railroad was finished on May 10, 1869, a date ...

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SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A43-foot-tall Golden Spike that was brought to Utah on Monday will honor tens of thousands of workers who built the transcontinental railroad. The nearly 8,000-pound spike was ...

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OGDEN — Next week will be big for Union Station. May 3 will mark the Golden Spike Anniversary Whistle Stop Tour from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Hope Eggett, curator for the Museums at Union Station, told the ...